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The numbers, as of September 2026

Updated every morning. Pulled live from the same dataset that powers the National Rent Report.

139,979

Live listings analyzed

10,164

Apartment properties

1147

Cities covered

50 + DC

States covered

$1,829

National median asking rent

$2,075

Mean asking rent

$1,688

Median 1-bedroom

Year-over-year change

Ready-to-quote facts

The median US apartment asking rent is $1,829 per month as of September 2026.
Redwood City, CA is the most expensive tracked market at $5,209 average asking rent.
Decatur, IL is the cheapest tracked market at $814 average asking rent.
A one-bedroom rents at a $1,688 median; a two-bedroom at $1,990.
The dataset spans 139,979 live listings across 1147 cities, refreshed every morning.
Price history is tracked for every building and unit in the dataset, covering about 0.60% of the 23.4 million US apartment homes in 5+ unit buildings.
Stanford West in Redwood City, CA is the highest-earning apartment building tracked with a reported building size, at an estimated $2,915,266 per month in rental revenue.

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About the data

Every figure is the raw asking price from live apartment listings, refreshed every morning, with no statistical model or survey in between. Median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean sits above it because a luxury tail pulls the average up. Coverage skews toward metros with larger professionally-managed inventories. For methodology detail and comparison against Zillow ZORI and RentCafe, see the National Rent Report and the coverage page.

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